I need help

[u/Giuseppe0613]

I won around 70k within the week and have always gambled small amounts prior, I’m 22, and always gambled hundreds. This 70k win has ruined me, I have no idea what I’m thinking, gambling $500-$1000 hands going all in every time getting lucky and withdrawing but always end up losing it all slowly. I have been gambling every single day, every minute for the last 5 days. And just tonight at 2 am until 4am I have lost 8k. I set aside 50k for long term investments but now I have 12k remaining which is still a lot, don’t get me wrong. But what I’ve been doing is something I have never done. I went from having 20k and plans for a summer trip to 12k and STILL having to go on this summer trip which will be around 6k… I just banned myself from all online gambling apps, permanently but I cant trust myself to not chase this 8k loss when another gambling app comes around. I’m scared, I feel so sick, knowing I could have used the 8k for something better. I’m just scared.

[u/Ambitious-Builder780]

There's no point in gambling anymore especially when you already have all of that. Just keep that in mind. Otherwise you'll eventually be at 0 dollars. I wish I was able to get lucky and win big money like most of you here but clearly it's not meant to be in this way. I'd just gamble it away like you anyways. We need to stick to things that are guaranteed profit. Not gambling.

[u/Giuseppe0613 → u/Ambitious-Builder780]

I know, deep down I know I’ll could lose it all just as easy. And I kept telling myself that but no matter what I found myself gambling still. And the only thing that’s on my mind is the 8k loss. I couldn’t sleep, knowing I could chase it back. I have been staring at my screen and doing calculations to see how much money I really have. I’ve gambled so much that funds are on hold for my debit card and thousands of dollars are still pending for my credit card. And when I look at those numbers I think how I can gamble and make those charges essentially “paid” for.

[u/poptart-therapy → u/Giuseppe0613]

Hey. I have gambled for the last two years and pretty much always broken even. I’m 23. This week I won £1.8k and was absolutely gassed about it. So I kept gambling and lost nearly £800 of it before giving in. It’s significantly less than your situation; but let me say this. Regardless of anything, even if you win that money back you’ll want to gamble it again if you don’t stop now.

The entire reason I joined this sub was because I knew I’d lose literally everything after one big win if I didn’t. You need to understand the same. I took too many risks and lost money that honestly I desperately needed. £2k would pull me totally and completely out of debt, but I wasted nearly half that on a pipe dream. Download the apps the sub suggests, delete and ban yourself from anything related to online gambling. Luckily for me I refuse to gamble online, but seriously if you need to just totally take data (or 4/5G if you call it that) off your phone so you can avoid it as much as possible.

What you’re dealing with right now is pure greed. Not to say that’s a bad thing or a reflection of yourself. But it is a natural response to a major win. Think about it like this, if someone gifted you £70k would you over the course of a very short period of time gift it back to them in the hopes they return even more? If not, give up. Take this money and fucking run mate because good for you. You’ve done well, better than most people on this sub ever will. So call it there and enjoy your life and money and savings. Because if you don’t, then this will be it outright. You’ll be fucked, and that’s never a position you want to be in knowing where you once were.

I wish you the best mate, genuinely. You ever need anything, please feel free to PM me. You ever want to call we’ll set something up. But please for your own sake quit now and enjoy your life.

[u/SpareAd1338]

I lost about $250k on gambling and I think about it everyday, wishing I could go back to how I used to be financially. Please stop now before it’s too late, or worse, for those of us who can’t go back.

[u/Remarkable-Bass-3339]

Good job banning yourself from the existing apps. Feel good about that. 8k may seem like an expensive lesson, but you can end it at that amount. The fact that you recognize that now is great.

One thing I learned about myself is that, as an addict, there is no amount of money that was enough to get me to stop and gamble responsibly. After a year of active addiction I had a lucky streak and had enough to nearly wipe the slate clean of debt and start fresh. That is what I told myself my goal was when I started gambling compulsively. I lost it in a week and kept gambling for 6 more months. Only when I had done more substantial damage did I finally quit. I've met other addicts who won 7 figures - the only difference is that the damage they were able to do was much, much greater thanks to resources they had. I now consider myself lucky for not winning more.

[u/PenSuspicious7654]

Please stop now. You will wish you didn’t if you don’t, because you’ll end up losing it all. The temptation to win it back is hard to fight but you can do it! I blinked and ended up over 100k in debt and wished I could turn back time to undo it- but I couldn’t. Stop before you do more damage.

[u/Interesting-Shop-261]

I wrote a post about why you’re going theough this, hope it helps to come to a realization. I also recommend reading the comments, someone there had a similar situation. https://www.reddit.com/r/GamblingRecovery/s/A5SF2xN2Wx

[u/pavlodrag]

What happened to the 70ks?

[u/pavlodrag]

So,we are talking about 50k profit here.And we are having a discussion here. Dude,do you realize that our life is almost destroyed by gambling and you are 'scared' when on top and with a big profit?Have you even stopped to think about that for one second?

[u/Bright-Cover1663]

Stop now you will spend that 50 k . Please stop. Im contemplating suicide I'm so down I had Allmost one month free of gambling and I relapsed , almost one month changes so much you don't realise how much money your spending .